hi, I am using zope and gadfly for my project. but while using the SQL methods, I get the error if I use the "like" option. E.g.. select * from table where Emp_name like "*rama*" I will get the following error. Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: SyntaxError Error Value: unexpected token sequence.near :: 'est\012where \012Emp_name'*' like "*rama*"' ******************************* current state = 57 expects: 'HAVING', 'UNION', 'GROUP', 'VARCHAR', 'DESC', 'SELECT', 'ORDER', 'WHERE', 'AS', 'EXCEPT', '*', 'IN', 'INTERSECT', 'FLOAT', '+', '(', ')', '.', '/', ',', '-', 'AND', 'FROM', '*', ';', 'INTEGER', 'NOT', '>', 'OR', '=', 'BETWEEN', 'ASC', '<', 'VALUES', ('nomatch1',) current token = ((-8, 'user_defined_name'), 'LIKE') kindly help thanks bye subrahmanyan.